Re: Disappearing EMAC files

[Kai Grossjohann]

"Michele Reniff" <mreniff@lcbmail.uoregon.edu> writes:

> I am tech support for the Lundquist College of Business and one of
> the faculty here uses EMACs.  His .emacs and assorted other files
> stored on the root drive of C have simply disappeared.  Lucky, he
> has a backup copy of the .emacs file and was able to continue
> working.  I was wondering if any other EMAC user has experience this
> phenomenon.

Emacs does not normally delete that file, so it must have been
something or someone else.

People may wish to set the HOME environment variable to some safe,
backed-up, directory, and put the .emacs file into that directory.

>From within Emacs, C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET opens the file that Emacs
will load during startup.  This can be used to check whether the
environment variable is set properly, for example.

Kai